Good afternoon to one and all, this is my first post on the forums here so please excuse my ignorance in regards to any mistakes I might make. The purpose of this thread is for me to discuss my strategy that has guided me to my first Diety Victory this very afternoon.
Before I begin, I am relatively new to Civilization, playing since Civ III and have briefly read a few articles on the site however am not exactly up to date with the various strategies.
Like I said this is my first victory on Diety. I was playing with Huge Continents and controlling Victoria of the English Empire. Her Philosophical and Financial traits seem to be the most powerful available and being British they're my personal favourite.
My strategy is all about what could be described as 'sustainable commerce' basically high commerce squares that can sustain themselves in terms of food i.e. 2 or more food per square on average in the 20 square radius of the city. Commerce should be as high as possible, made even stronger by the trait.
I create 3 commerce cities, based on resources (such as gold, fur, and ideally insense) in and ultimately cottages. These are what I call culture cities, the most important in the empire as they will be the basis for scientific research, the economy and the win through culture. I will then create one production city where I look for hills/forests/resources etc to gain high production. Then finally 2 food cities where I can create as many specialists as possible thus taking advantage of the Philosophical trait in pumping out Great People. Finally I will create one possible military factory if the production city is not capable or am surrounded by aggressive leaders.
I have had some cities with 8/9 commerce per square and 2 food on each square this supporting 20 population and enough commerce to keep science, culture or the economy at an astronomically high rate. These 'super tiles' were Towns on grassland squares (some with an additional resource making the 9) where the printing press has been researched and Free Speech used as a civic.
I generally maximise Science to found as many religions as possible and go for Pyramids, then go for a 50/50 split with Science and Commerce while spreading the religions and buying religious buildings for the commerce cities due to their low production. Then I hit the research hard again to get the cities up to the maximum level I spoke of previousely and gain cultural sciences + Hermatage. Finally I will use the Culture Slider, production city and as many Great People as possible to get the 3 Commerce Cities producing maximum culture and wait for the victory.
Is this a strategy anybody else has used or does anybody have any advice? Just looking for a general discussion really. Thankyou for reading!
Before I begin, I am relatively new to Civilization, playing since Civ III and have briefly read a few articles on the site however am not exactly up to date with the various strategies.
Like I said this is my first victory on Diety. I was playing with Huge Continents and controlling Victoria of the English Empire. Her Philosophical and Financial traits seem to be the most powerful available and being British they're my personal favourite.
My strategy is all about what could be described as 'sustainable commerce' basically high commerce squares that can sustain themselves in terms of food i.e. 2 or more food per square on average in the 20 square radius of the city. Commerce should be as high as possible, made even stronger by the trait.
I create 3 commerce cities, based on resources (such as gold, fur, and ideally insense) in and ultimately cottages. These are what I call culture cities, the most important in the empire as they will be the basis for scientific research, the economy and the win through culture. I will then create one production city where I look for hills/forests/resources etc to gain high production. Then finally 2 food cities where I can create as many specialists as possible thus taking advantage of the Philosophical trait in pumping out Great People. Finally I will create one possible military factory if the production city is not capable or am surrounded by aggressive leaders.
I have had some cities with 8/9 commerce per square and 2 food on each square this supporting 20 population and enough commerce to keep science, culture or the economy at an astronomically high rate. These 'super tiles' were Towns on grassland squares (some with an additional resource making the 9) where the printing press has been researched and Free Speech used as a civic.
I generally maximise Science to found as many religions as possible and go for Pyramids, then go for a 50/50 split with Science and Commerce while spreading the religions and buying religious buildings for the commerce cities due to their low production. Then I hit the research hard again to get the cities up to the maximum level I spoke of previousely and gain cultural sciences + Hermatage. Finally I will use the Culture Slider, production city and as many Great People as possible to get the 3 Commerce Cities producing maximum culture and wait for the victory.
Is this a strategy anybody else has used or does anybody have any advice? Just looking for a general discussion really. Thankyou for reading!
